Katherine Reynolds Lewis
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232 appearances
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first heard Jun 2018
last heard Jun 2018
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Oh, such a good question.
And this really is the challenge because even educators who say, Oh, I understand, you know, we have this, you know, education plan and we have, you know, we know that your child has ADHD or that they have um some kind of processing issue.
they may uh understand it intellectually and believe it, but then they also have these expectations underlying the surface that they may not be consciously aware of.
So even though intellectually they may say, Oh, I understand that this behavior is coming from some
specific different wiring in that child's brain.
they respond to it instinctively.
So it's just almost the same process as the way that we are raising our children is helping to kind of constantly educate the people who are in charge of our kids during the day.
Um so of course that starts with connection, right?
Having a strong relationship with your child's classroom teachers, the counselor, the principal, and what whoever's in the school who can be an advocate.
And
sort of having a steady conversation where you can inject, you know, oh yeah, I know.
It's so hard with, you know, kids who have ADHD that they really seem to space out or it takes them longer.
Doesn't it take them longer to learn how to keep track of all those assignments so that it can be a little bit of an undercurrent in that conversation all the time.
And then when something comes up
it is not the first time you've had that conversation with that educator and you're you're sort of reminding them, Yeah, remember this kid has ADHD or has um a processing issue.
And we also have to be patient with them as well because
It's not easy.
I mean, I've observed so many classrooms for this book and it's a huge challenge to manage even typically developing kids in a class now really aren't so cooperative.
So they have a lot on their plate and as much as we can be sort of an ally and offering suggestions and understanding when they make mistakes and
um misjudge our kids and um try to work together with them.
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